 ... signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression,...  Healthy Life and Hydropathic News - Page 371883Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — All things arc s, houses, and furniture ? Talk they of morals ? There is no need of Hutchesoii, may be mercy. — fíuskin. It ia only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. — The more... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 372 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality^. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort,jind the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...imperfection is to destroy expression, to cheek exertion, to paralyze vitality. — All things are 0 rimy be effort, and the law of human judgment may be mercy. — liusfcin. It is only imperfection that... | |
 | William J. Northen - 1908 - 672 pages
...form without effort, and the best effort is called forth by hindrance. Ruskin says: "Imperfections are divinely appointed that the law of human life may be effort and the law of human judgment mercy." The boy who can not endure scratches will not gather many berries. The man who is afraid of being stung... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1903 - 694 pages
...There is no solemnity so deep, to a rightthinking creature, as that of dawn. — "Sesame and Lilies." All things are literally better, lovelier and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy. — "Stones of Venice." No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort and the law of human judgment. Mercy. SECOND HALF. Examiner — HC MAITRA, ESQ., MA 6. Explain two of the following with reference to the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 454 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the_law of human judgment, Mercy. — RUSKIN : Stones of Venice. The proposition is the first sentence.... | |
 | William Henry Goodyear - 1921 - 144 pages
...banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things arc literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the...imperfections which have been divinely appointed." So that to see the Tower, as with Baedecker in I land, is a formality which defeats its own end. ff... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1927 - 254 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
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